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Sedona AZ – The Arizona Department of Public Safety’s (AZDPS) Arizona State Gang Task Force, in collaboration with the Globe Police Department, the Gila County Sheriff’s Office, the Show Low Police Department and the Gila County Attorney’s Office, crippled an organized criminal network which sold illicit drugs within Gila and Navajo Counties.
The investigation code...

View of San Francisco Peaks, site of the Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff AZ.
Sedona AZ – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team conducts operations to assist skiers and snow boarders in the Arizona back country.
Each ski season when there is ample snow fall, skiers and snow boarders enjoy back country runs out of the permit area of the Arizona Snowbowl. People leaving the...

Sedona AZ – On February 3, 2019, at approximately 9:27 a.m., two Flagstaff Police Officers were leaving The Guidance Center in Flagstaff at 2187 North Vickey Street on an unrelated call when a man, Henry Harold Russell, 47, from Boise, Idaho, confronted the officers brandishing two knives. The confrontation escalated when Russell approached an officer in a threatening manner with the knives raised....

Sedona AZ (February 7, 2019) – Motorists traveling from the West Valley toward downtown Phoenix this weekend should allow extra travel time and plan ahead to avoid a closure of eastbound Arizona Interstate 10 (Papago Freeway) between 67th and 51st Avenues due to construction of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Eastbound I-10 will be closed...

Alert Arizona Department of Transportation officer begins a law enforcement team effort that discovers a half ton of illegal marijuana, thousands of dollars in cash, and other drugs inside a falsely marked delivery van.
Sedona AZ (February 6, 2019) – Arizona Department of Transportation officers, aided by one of the agency’s K-9 units, seized more than a half ton of marijuana Tuesday evening...

Sedona AZ (February 5, 2019) – Shortly before 1:00 this morning, Sedona firefighters responded to an alarm in the Village of Oak Creek, Sedona. When SFD crews arrived at the 30 Beaver Street home, fire was venting from its roof and, fortunately, both residents had been able to exit the structure.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze, but damage to the house is extensive.
“The residents...

Sedona AZ (January 30, 2019) – *UPDATE January 31, 2019, at 12:40 p.m. – Armed Man Barricaded Near Williams AZ Safeway Surrenders
On January 30, 2019, around 12:18 in the afternoon, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Deputies and the Williams Police Department initiated a traffic stop on Matthew Solan who was wanted for questioning related to a report of aggravated assault and kidnapping....